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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Pliny the Elder

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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Not a day without a line.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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